Are the ARM MALI 450 MP and ARM MALI 450 MP4 the same thing or not?

Alban Rampon seems to have answered the MP question, so I'll just answer the technical bits here.

> So I have given you the names of 2 video processors from ARM which I think feature at least 4 (quad cores) or octa (8) core and are clocked at 700MHz each GPU.

The number of cores and the frequency depends on the implementation of the GPU in a specific chip, rather than the GPU design which ARM licenses to its partners. It is possible to have exactly the same RTL design from ARM built for very different performance and power envelopes, depending on target market. A chip targeted at smartphones will typically clock slower, but be more power efficient per operation because of that, than a chip targeting a "wired market" such as HDTV.

If in doubt check the datasheet for the specific parts you are looking at.

> I would like to know how much video memory the ARM Mali 450 MP or MP4 uses to store its pixels information or images as a buffer or just information for images or does it share video memory from the ram or shared memory instead? If it shares memory, what is that type of memory called? NOP, IMP or what? Please give me a link on that.

All of the Mali GPUs support a unified memory architecture - in nearly all cases we use the same system RAM as the CPU. However, this is configurable so a specific vendor may statically allocate a block of RAM for the GPU or use a separate RAM device with different performance properties (unusual though - most devices just use system RAM).

Again, this is not part of the GPU IP which ARM sells, so it depends on the configuration of the platform and operating system BSP, so always worth checking the part datasheet / manual to see how the GPU memroy layout has been configured.

HTH,
Pete

Alban Rampon seems to have answered the MP question, so I'll just answer the technical bits here.

> So I have given you the names of 2 video processors from ARM which I think feature at least 4 (quad cores) or octa (8) core and are clocked at 700MHz each GPU.

The number of cores and the frequency depends on the implementation of the GPU in a specific chip, rather than the GPU design which ARM licenses to its partners. It is possible to have exactly the same RTL design from ARM built for very different performance and power envelopes, depending on target market. A chip targeted at smartphones will typically clock slower, but be more power efficient per operation because of that, than a chip targeting a "wired market" such as HDTV.

If in doubt check the datasheet for the specific parts you are looking at.

> I would like to know how much video memory the ARM Mali 450 MP or MP4 uses to store its pixels information or images as a buffer or just information for images or does it share video memory from the ram or shared memory instead? If it shares memory, what is that type of memory called? NOP, IMP or what? Please give me a link on that.

All of the Mali GPUs support a unified memory architecture - in nearly all cases we use the same system RAM as the CPU. However, this is configurable so a specific vendor may statically allocate a block of RAM for the GPU or use a separate RAM device with different performance properties (unusual though - most devices just use system RAM).

Again, this is not part of the GPU IP which ARM sells, so it depends on the configuration of the platform and operating system BSP, so always worth checking the part datasheet / manual to see how the GPU memroy layout has been configured.

HTH,
Pete